Today is the first day that it hasn’t rained or sleeted or snowed for …I can’t remember it’s been so long. I have managed to give the Honeysuckle a hair cut and fix the climbing net on to the fence. Hopefully it will give the honeysuckle a better hold and stop it flopping about.
We have [...]
The Jerusalem Artichoke was brought into England back in 1617 and John Franqueville gave two small tubers to John Goodyear. The original name for this tuber was Girasol and then to Girasolem and onto Jerusalem Artichoke, is actually from North America but grew so well that it is said John Goodyear stocked all of Hampshire, [...]
While I was away last Sunday ‘the apprentice’ took over the kitchen and made this lovely winter garden soup.
Fresh from the garden;
4 carrots
4 small winter radish
2 jerusalem artichokes
1 medium leek
4 bay leaves
1 small celery head
2 ‘Rooster’ potatoes
2 ‘Pink fir apple’ potatoes – both waxy so hold together well in soups.
Olive oil to sweat the vegetables
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Today, it’s time to start planning the vegetable plot. Our aim always is to make the plot work year round, giving us something fresh throughout the seasons. Now in the midst of winter we have American land cress still going strong also Jerusalem artichokes which can be dug up when needed. The Swiss chard is hanging in there [...]
